Old Photograph Adamson Brothers Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of Adamson brothers in Glasgow, Scotland. The surname first appears in 1281, with Alianor Adam, Assize Court Rolls of Cheshire, England. The patronymic form is first recorded in Scotland towards the end of the 13th Century. Colin Adamson was Provost of Aberdeen in 1340 and John Adamson, a Scot, was granted leave to travel overland from England to Bruges in 1433. Patrick Adamson, born 1537, died 1592, M.A. St. Andrews, Fife in 1558 and archbishop of St. Andrews, in 1576, became James VI's ambassador to Elizabeth in 1583.



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